Can you edit fcpx directly through an external drive?

Hello everyone,
So I've been wondering recently but can't find much in the way of answers on the internet. Are you able to hook up an external drive and actually edit the project directly on the drive through Final Cut Pro x? I have been considering getting a couple g drives with thunderbolt to speed up my backup process but wondered if it's possible to edit right there. Don't know if it's practical or not. Has anyone done it? Thanks all!

Videorock1 wrote:
I'm trying to do just that, but I can't get FCPX to acknowledge any external drive, other than to import from one.  The drive I want to use exclusively for FCP projects is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled).  But it won't show up in FCPX.  What am I not doing right?
Are you using 10.1.1? Hard drives don't appear in the interface as they did in previous versions.
When you create a new library, you choose where you want to store it.

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